Tackling antimicrobial resistance globally

Schultz, Rosalie

doi:10.5694/mja17.01125

Topics

Environment and public health

Indigenous health

General medicine

Social determinants of health

Pharmaceutical preparations

Your publication of a review on global approaches to antimicrobial resistance is timely.1 We especially note that antibiotic-resistant pathogens are not limited by borders, have greater impact on disadvantaged communities, and will require coordinated, high level government commitment to minimise their threat.1

1 Centre for Remote Health, Flinders University, Alice Springs, NT
2 Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation, Ninti One, Alice Springs, NT

Correspondence: rosalie.schultz@flinders.edu.au

Acknowledgements:

I am supported by a scholarship from the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation awarded through the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

Competing interests:

No relevant disclosures.

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